Joey. When are you going to take the hint and stop adding a quote of the entire post directly above your answer? It is not necessary and disrupts the flow, just as I am doing now. Moggy

As I suggested in my earlier post, they “playing along” so that they aren’t rejected on the top table, but not one of those nations has made committments to any of the Protocols, so far as I am aware. And they are unlikely to do so. It’s called playing politics. Unfortunately for all of us the stakes are rather high, but, hey, what do a handful of here today, gone tomorrow politicians care. Some of them would like to make their mark on history, some are along for the ride.

I was thinking of posting the VW commercials so this has made my day.:D I’ve never seen it and just love it. I think each of those Polo, Golf and Passat ads of the 80s were mini-classics.

Complete quote of posting directly above removed. Please don’t. Moggy

Those are the key words” being pressured to reduce their consumption”. And they are making conciliatory noises but there is no consensus that they will actually abide by any protocols.

I am not sure who is patronising who. It is a minority of scientists and others who fundementally disagree with the majority of other scientists and politicians as to a) whether or not man’s activities affect global warming and b) whether there is any current global warming at all.

I can only speak personally but I don’t recall reading anything on Fox News. Whether or not it is a mouthpiece or not seems irrelevant since the Republicans were hardly entrenched in opposition, until recently, when both Democrats and Republicans have reacted to the growing amount of contrary scientific evidence.

My goodness you are an asset to this thread and these forums.

Your points have great validity and however much some of us might resent where we are, this is where we are.

If a successfully devolved Assembly is still working in Stormont in ten years time, without the current leadership, but with fresh blood and no harboured ambitions from either side, then I would say that it will have been a success.

How representative do you think you are of Republicans of your age?

Paring away your sarcasm, what you would be able to do is to conserve energy sensibly and rationally, for entirely different reasons, and not pay through the nose for massive reductions in fossil fuel burning, huge investments in inefficient renewable energy systems, and carbon trading cash cows.

And as for your worries about melting ice-caps and increasing CO2, they will be quietly disipated as year on year they are found to be inaccurate and irrelevant, or rather more inaccurate and irrelevant than they are already proving to be.

Didn’t I see another global warming thread here when I was looking through the forums after joining? I am sure it is full of opposing argument.:D

I wouldnt worry too much joey…they will merely find some other cash cow excuse to tax the A55 off us 😉
As I said previously…those of us who are a little older still remember the dire warnings of the impending ice age just a few years before the climate change cr@p started up.

what a bunch of amateurs :rolleyes:

Exactly. After all, the now discredited Chairman of the “Holy” IPCC is a railway engineer so he will certainly be right on the button as far as climate science is concerned!

Clear, sunny, frosty morning and the days are getting longer.

Makes you wonder who they asked…………….Anyway most nations have produced beautiful and/or sexy (not the same thing at all ) women and men over the years. It’s not a national characteristic, but an individual one. I suppose one of the reasons for the US being top is that most people see more Americans in film and on TV than any other nation.